Firefox and cookie micromanagement

Huh, I'd have expected Firefox to genuinely purge things if I told it to purge them. That would have been an easier way to do it, but it seems to me that they're overloading the same control panel with two separate meanings, both allowing the cookies to originally be set, and then what happens when the browser closes.

Regardless, it's the underlying disrespect that drove me away. What I'm *really* objecting to is the absolutely shoddy way the feature removal was handled. After all the rather shitty things they've done over the last year or two, I don't trust Mozilla anymore. I'm pretty sure they're not serving me, and even if I could duplicate my existing setup in a faster and better way, that doesn't restore my trust. I can't count on that team to honor my wishes. Silently ignoring a security/privacy setting like that is extraordinarily bad form. I could have coped with a feature removal, but I can't cope if they hide the change.

I'd also make two observations that you might want to consider. First: are you sure that the cookies aren't being preserved? Because my settings were still all Allow For Session, but they weren't being purged. You might have a ton of cookies you don't know about.

And, second: how confident are you that they'll continue to honor that setting? How do you know they won't silently change that, too?

Same. I've had third party cookies blocked since approximately forever, and I think the only breakage I've *ever* noticed that I was able to attribute to this was Disqus.